The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c11.s7: 7. Sāgaramati
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c11.s7
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7. Sāgaramati
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Colour—White Symbol—Sea Wave or Conch
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Bodhisattva Sāgaramati ( ocean mind ) is twice described in the Niṣpannayogāvalī. In the Mañjuvajra Maṇḍala, he is described as:
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Sāgaramatiḥ sito hastadvayaprasāritaḥ sarvāṅgulibhistaraṅgākhinayī NSP, p. 50.
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¹ Clark : TLP, II. p. 136.
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“Sāgaramati is white in colour with both hands outstretched and the fingers displaying the sea-waves.”
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In the Dharmadhātuvāgīśvara Maṇḍala he is once again described as :
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Sāgaramatiḥ sitaḥ savyena śaṃkhaṃvāmena vajrakhaḍgaṃ dadhānaḥ.
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NSP, p. 58.
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“Sāgaramati is white in colour, holds in the right hand the conch, and in the left a sword marked with a Vajra.”
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Fig. 55 is a Nepalese drawing of Sāgaramati.
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- Niṣpannayogāvalī — Abhayākaragupta, Sanskrit